[WikiEN-l] JoanB is DW

Wed Apr 16 21:30:23 UTC 2003

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 16:36, Erik Moeller wrote:
> > Do people still believe that anonymous contribution is critical
> > to success, or is it just an attitude left over from the startup
> > days?
> 
> This has been discussed to death, here's my opinion on what we need to get  
> done in the next months:
> 
> 1) Allow sysops to check the IP of new* contributors
> 2) Allow sysops to block new* contributors by IP/name
> 3) Have IP blocks expire after a definable amount of time
> 4) Use an additional cookie-based "soft blocking" mechanism that should  
> fool the technically challenged
> 5) In order to increase sysop accountability, log all sysop actions in the  
> recent_changes (e.g. user:foo banned, page xyz protected)

In an arms race, no one wins, especially those with something to protect
when the other side has nothing to protect.

Additional gateway/protection mechanisms will only exacerbate the
problem.